New Book – March by John Lewis

As a librarian, much of my reading should come from reviews I read in professional journals or what I hear colleagues talking about. The reality is, I pick a lot of books based on guests of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. This is how March by John Lewis ended up in our library.

March is a graphic novel about the March on Washington in 1963, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. John Lewis was also there. He was the sixth speaker of the day (King was the tenth). And, I learned from the book, the only speaker who is still living. Lewis is now a congressional representative from Georgia. March is the story of how he came to be involved in the civil rights movement. I read about half of it last night and have found it really interesting and engaging.
For those who are interested, here are the twoparts to his interview with Stephen Colbert.